The ''Journal of Clinical Psychology'' is a monthly

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covering psychological research, assessment, and practice. It was established in 1945. It covers research on

psychopathology Psychopathology is the study of abnormal cognition, behaviour, and experiences which differs according to social norms and rests upon a number of constructs that are deemed to be the social norm at any particular era. Biological psychopatholo ...

, psychodiagnostics,

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and treatment matching, clinical outcomes, clinical health psychology, and

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. Each year, four of the monthly issues are dedicated to ''In Session'', a section that focuses on clinical issues that may be encountered by psychotherapists. ''In Session'' is editorially independent from the main journal. From 1995 - 1999 it was published as a separate journal titled, ''In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice''. From time to time, the journal publishes special issues, containing a selection of articles related to a single particularly timely or important theme. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2011

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of 2.116, ranking it 31st out of 109 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical." In 2001, the

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of the ''Journal of Clinical Psychology'' agreed to publish, without peer review, five articles on Roger Callahan's

Thought Field Therapy Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a fringe psychological treatment developed by American psychologist Roger Callahan. Its proponents say that it can heal a variety of mental and physical ailments through specialized "tapping" with the fingers at m ...

. In lieu of peer review, critiques were published alongside each article.McNally, R.J. (2001). Tertullian’s motto and Callahan’s method. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57(10) 1171-1174Herbert & Gaudiano 2001
/ref> The critics agreed that each of the five studies contained serious flaws that rendered them uninterpretable by them and reinforced the conclusion that Thought Field Therapy was a

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